3 Killed, 9 Wounded In Shootings Since Monday Afternoon
Three men were killed and nine others wounded in gun violence across the city since Monday afternoon, including two men who were found shot to death in West Pullman early Tuesday.
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Three men were killed and nine others wounded in gun violence across the city since Monday afternoon, including two men who were found shot to death in West Pullman early Tuesday.
A man and woman were injured minutes apart in two separate shootings on the South Side late Monday.
The victims were found in a late model Dodge Charger, parked in the 100 block of East 120th Street, around the corner from their mother's house, just hours after leaving a family gathering.
It's been one year since the gunfire and chaos of the Oak Creek Sikh Temple in Wisconsin. When it was over, six people were dead and five others injured. Monday night, the community that rallied around the temple after the shooting is once again coming together.
A man was shot to death in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood Monday afternoon on the South Side.
29-year-old Gerardo Franchini was eating breakfast with his wife and two children Saturday morning when the gunman walked up and fired.
One man was killed and at least 21 other people -- including a 6-year-old boy -- were hurt in gun violence across the city since Friday night.
A man was shot to death early Saturday, about a block away from the Chicago Police Department's headquarters on the South Side.
No one was in custody for any of the shootings Friday morning.
An 18-year-old man has been charged with two counts of murder, accused of killing a woman and her 5-year-old son in their Back of the Yards home in June.
The shootings came as July drew to a close and police officials announced the number of shootings decreased when compared to the same months in 2012 and 2011.
The drop translates to 79 fewer murders so far this year, compared to the same time period last year, police said. The number of murders through July is the lowest for any year since 1965.
A Cook County judge on Tuesday found a South Side teenager guilty of shooting and wounding an 11-year-boy looking for snakes with his friends.
Investigators spent the night at Evanston Pipe & Tobacco, after 38-year-old Mohammed Abdul Azim Hakeem and 34-year-old Mohammed Abdul Mubeen Hakeem were found in the basement.
A 35-year-old man was seriously wounded when he was shot three times in the Garfield Park neighborhood early Wednesday, police said.
One teen, a 16-year-old boy, was in the 1700 block of West 71st Street in the West Englewood about 7:55 p.m. when a group of males approached him and demanded the bicycle he was riding.
A teen was shot after a group tried to rob him of his bicycle Tuesday night in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.
A 4-year-old girl who was shot in the stomach Monday afternoon was doing better on Tuesday, and has been moved out of the intensive care unit.
Police said the vendor was working at the corner of 15th Avenue and Clark Road, when a gunman approached him and shot him around 5:30 a.m.
The 30-year-old man suffered gunshot wounds in the head and neck.
The shooting occurred about 8:50 p.m. in the 1800 block of West Garfield Boulevard.
Cauriece Graham, of the 1800 block of West Garfield Boulevard was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County where he died about 40 minutes later
Witnesses at the scene tells CBS 2 the girl is four and was riding on a scooter in an alley when a man jumped out of nowhere and began shooting, hitting her in the stomach. She apparently was caught in the crossfire.
Standing before some of the more than 4,000 guns seized by Chicago Police this year, Superintendent Garry McCarthy outlined four cases where men picked up for unlawful use of a weapon later became victims.
The 27-year-old mother of three was stabbed in the left arm by her children's father, only a few feet away from where Chicago police officers stood waiting on the front steps, thinking she was safe and out of harm's way.
